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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
NAMMA CHENNAI
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t’s never too late to gift your Valentine,especially if it is a book. In response to thearticle ‘Say it with a book this Valentine’,published on February 13, Chital Mehta hassuggested some more books that are an idealpick.
P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
P.S I Love You
is a story about a young woman,Holly, who loses her husband in the early yearsof her marriage.She is unable to come out of the trauma. Fatesmiles upon her when Holly receives a packagefrom her late husband. He has left herletters for each month and a taskto be performed. Holly rebuildslife with some fun, laughter andtears. It is an emotional book,yet fun-filled, which exposeslittle miracles about life whichare often overlooked.
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
Love is not only about owning butalso letting go.
Dear John
is a storyabout a soldier who falls in love withSavannah. She brings him to a “better part oflife” but deserts him due to circumstances. Thenovel speaks about undying love andperseverance. A must-read for those who arein love as well as for those who aren’t in love.
More books from Nicholas Sparks
Message in a Bottle, The Notebook, The Guardian, A Bend in the Road, The Wedding
(Chital Mehta is an associate software engineer with Accenture)
W
e don’t know how speciala Valentine’s Day it wasfor actor Suriya and fam-ily, but for the patients of Tanker Foundation it was a day toremember. A double bonanza awaited allthose at the Tanker Foundation’s15th anniversary. Everybody wasonly expecting Suriya at theevent; instead he dropped in with wife Jyotika and little Diya. Forthe uninitiated, the actor is thegoodwill ambassador of TankerFoundation, which helps the un-derprivileged suffering from kid-ney ailments by offering themsubsidised dialysis treatment.The family went around meet-ing patients, giving roses to eachof them and encouraging them tomotivate new patients on dialysistreatment. He also praised thestaff for taking care of the many patients.The celebrations started with aprayer song, we shall over come,sung by Latha A. Kumaraswami,managing trustee of the founda-tion, with the staff and Suriyasinging along in chorus.It was a day when all the pa-tients looked happy and motivat-ed.
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When Suriya
shook hands,
sang a song and gaverosesaway
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n a breakthrough in the mur-der of a female employee working in a supermarket inRoyapuram, police on Sunday arrested the lady owner of the su-permarket on Tuesday. The ac-cused woman had allegedly orchestrated the murder of heremployee after being irked overthe fact that her husband washaving an affair with her.On Sunday afternoon, Ananthi(23) was stabbed to death insidethe supermarket by an unidenti-fied youth.Royapuram police registered acase of murder and upon investi-gation it was discovered that theaccused Bhavani (37) had de-ployed Harikrishnan (27), a watercan supplier from Mylapore, tocommit the murder. Harikrish-nan was a friend of Bhavani’sdaughter. According to an investigating officer, Bhavani had convincedHarikrishnan to kill Ananthi by promising him her daughter’shand in marriage. Harikrishnan, with the help of Muthukrishnan(45), the watchman of the store,and Venkatesan (34) reached thestore, identified Ananthi andstabbed her.Royapuram police arrestedBhavani, Harikrishnan, Muthuk-rishnan and Venkatesan and pro-duced them at the George Towncourt.They were later remanded tocustody and sent to Puzhal pris-on.
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Police crack woman’smurder, 4 arrested
The accused woman had allegedly orchestratedthe murder of her employee after being irkedover the fact that her husband was having anaffair with the victim
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